ArteFill®: A permanent skin filler

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 281-289

  Broder, Kevin W ^a   Cohen, Steven R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FACESplus Aesthetic Facility   (United States)

Author keywords

ArteFill ; Atecoll ; Cosmetic; Facial; Fillers; Permanent; PMMA; Polymethylmethacrylate; Rhytids; Skin; Wrinkles

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE DIPROPIONATE; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN IMPLANT; FILLER; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; MICROSPHERE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; COSMETIC;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDEMA; FOLLOW UP; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SAFETY; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN GRANULOMA; SKIN REDNESS; STRESS INCONTINENCE; WRINKLE; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DRUG EFFECT; IMPLANTATION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SCAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BOVINAE; RHYTIDA;

CICATRIX; COLLAGEN; COSMETICS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MICROSPHERES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SKIN AGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646557008     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.3.3.281     Document Type: Article

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